Archive for Release Year: 1975

8 posts from 29 June 2024 to 07 April 2019.

  • French Connection II

    The difficult second album syndrome strikes again. Actually, this suffers from a lack of editing: remove the War on Drugs element in the middle and you get a solid action film, a low rent Bourne meets Hardcore Henry, of all things.

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    Bumbling fool or truth-telling jester? Does the line between the two cuts through a man’s heart? Was our protagonist born on the wrong side of the tracks, or his he just a manipulative bastard scheming to obtain quick fame? If so, he failed completely.

  • Three Days of the Condor

    A complex story of moral turpitude against the square-jawed personification of justice and valour. Such is the moral righteousness, it sways even a lonesome skiing photographer.

  • The Return of the Pink Panther

    More Closeau antics, female cat burglars and Dreyfus losing him mind.

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    Al Pacino hissing to the crown while miming a cat’s paw remains an incredible image.

  • Rollerball

    Look at us, look at what they make you give.

  • Emanuelle: L'antivierge

    More softcore banging with yet another excuse plot, but with better cameras, more girls, and less rape. There’s even less plot, “let’s fuck” is uttered unironically.

  • Emanuelle

    Some porn with flimsy plot, not very French. This has aged horribly, there are cancellable offences left and right. It’s tamer than daytime reality shows.